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2002 S60 to replace 94 940? S60

posted by  Dubies on  Wed Jan 7 04:46 CST 2009
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Thanks Everyone for your replies. I test drove the car overnight last night and spent some time at the Dealer. The car was original leased and then sold at the same dealer (the only Volvo dealer in town). The Salesman printed off all the maintenance records and I went through everything. All servicing has been done at the dealer and most of the maintenance issues was more small stuff(predictably) bulbs etc. The car is a 2002 at 95,000kms and the salesman said they would do the 96,000km maitenance on the car.

They also installed all new bushing and new front brakes. He offered to get new summer tires to put on the alloys (which they have in storage) and it comes with winter tires currently on it. Car drove great. Its hard to test in winter with slippery roads but it held the road great on the highway and never felt unstable under any conditions. Its the T5 so it had tons of power and a really nice interior.

I did a preliminary inspection and things looked good. I looked under the oil cap though and there seemed to be some dried out black stuff on the cap. I thought this was odd as my 940 which had 3 times the mileage had a clean oil cap. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? Should I be concerned about it? Also at idle I felt a vibration come through the seat and steering wheel. Didn't feel like anything major and I thought it was probably just a worn engine mount.

Also, the windows kept fogging up and the only way I could get them to not fog is if I pressed the defog button on the automatic climate control. It worked great but it was super loud. I thought this was annoying but also that maybe I didn't know how to properly run the system.

In respons the Klaus's advice dealers do seem to be hard up for sales. Last night witout me saying boo the guy dropped the price of the car 3k. This seemed odd, Should I pitch him even lower and should I be concerned?

The other car I am looking at is a 2005 Toyota Camry SE 4cyl with the 5 spd manual. Nice car, I can get it for the same price as the Volvo and it made me think alot of my old 940. It was big, had great visibility and I could drive it for years with good fuel mileage. Downside was that its not as much fun as the volvo and has about 100hp less then the T5.

Thanks for your help!

D






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